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| Divali Assembly by Sue Russell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 40. No chorus. A narrator, nine principal characters and (nominally) 30 children for the presentational part of the script. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Piece for a full school class, with a good balance between straight information delivery and drama. |
| Synopsis | An informative and educational assembly about the festival of lights which includes a play of the story of Rama, Sita, Ravana and the origins of Divali. |
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| Doctor Hoof by Diana Kimpton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 8. Chorus. All characters are animals behaving as humans (with options for any mix of gender). Flexible singing chorus (from none to lots). |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Choruses set to traditional tunes are included in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Short play for children. (It might be described as a light comedy or a light morality play.) Minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | Doctor Hoof only treats other horses. When he moves to a new town, he finds he's the only horse around, so there's no one for him to treat. Helped by the other animals, he gradually learns they are not as different from him as he thought. |
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| Dog in the Manger by Raymond Blakesley |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 19. Chorus. Characters include a dog, a camel, a donkey, three stars and a flock of sheep! |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Lyrics to simple songs (to well-known children's tunes) are included in the script. Additional (optional) carols are suggested. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Simple Nativity play for young children, told from the point of view of the animals! (No set or prop requirements.) |
| Synopsis | A dog, a camel a donkey and a star are all complaining about their lot in life, but they have important roles to play in Bethlehem. |
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| Doing Shakespeare by Louise Wade |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama for a small high-school theatre group. There are two sets, but they are a drama studio and stage, so there is very little change required from one to the other - essentially only furniture. |
| Synopsis | Caroline is anticipating being busy enough with the latest school production, but now the Head wants her to include the school problem child, Dean Squires. Will he cope with Shakespeare? Will he disrupt the whole thing? Or perhaps, surprise everyone? |
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Don't Shout by Steve Menary
A Winner of the Lost Theatre Company Five Minute Festival, 2009 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Two adults and two children (could be played by four kids.) |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Very short play. Single set, no requirement for props. Part of the Emotions collection of shorts. |
| Synopsis | A brother and sister (who may have done something wrong) run rings around their parents in this funny short that will have kids and parents nodding in recognition. |
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| Don't You Get It? by Herb Hasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Whilst the central character is written (addressed as) male, it is the author's intention that all the characters could be played by either gender. The characters are two adults, two children, though all could be played by secondary school students. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A complex short (in that it has three locations - though each could be created by minimal indications) with lots of scope for interpretation. |
| Synopsis | A schoolchild encounters a few examples of communication failure during a typical day. |
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| A Double-Decker For Santa Claus by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen-minute play, a modern Christmas Carol without the ghosts! Single set. |
| Synopsis | Christmas doesn't mean much to Mr Howard - he just wants people to buy his cars, whatever the time of year. But now there's a customer in a red suit, looking to for something to replace his old sleigh... |
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| Dracula - The Final Countdown by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 35. Chorus. Very flexible cast, with a mixture of speaking and non-speaking parts, opportunities for doubling and opportunities for changing the gender of some of the characters. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comic and melodramatic retelling of Bram Stoker's story as a full-length play for kids. Sets can be relatively simple, but a fair number of props are required - coffins, that sort of thing. |
| Synopsis | Solicitor Jonathan Harker finds himself despatched to Transylvania to sort out a property deal for a mysterious Dr. Acula. On arrival, Harker realises that that he has been the victim of a misprint, but he is so charmed by his welcome that he fails to realise that he has become something of a prisoner. Harker's plight is made more acute by the attentions of the Brides of Dracula, a voracious trio, who appear to have less than honourable intentions. With the improbable assistance of Dracula's servant, Igoretta, Harker escapes and returns to England, where, shortly afterwards, his fiancé finds herself in the company of a mysterious foreign gentleman. Little does she realise what is at stake... |
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| E for Easter by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Whilst some of the characters are nominally gendered, they are symbolic, so take this as guidance only! |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short piece for young children, with an introduction to (largely the American sub-set of) Easter traditions. |
| Synopsis | The Easter animals led by rabbit Peter Cottontail present their account of the traditions surrounding Easter and their explanation of its meaning. |
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| The Easter Egg Hunt by Sue Russell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. Characters include nine fowl and an Easter bunny (offering plenty of opportunity for mask- or costume-making!) Beyond that, the cast is very flexible (basically written for a class-sized group). |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] (Assuming the suggested songs are used) |
| Music | Suggestions for critter-themed songs are made in the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Comedy play for young children, with corny jokes and opportunities for songs and dances. |
| Synopsis | The Easter Bunny (or Funny Bunny) tries to help out poor Clumsy Chicken who has smashed all her eggs in a nasty fall and is facing the chop... well, the roasting dish. Other feathered friends flock around to help or hinder the effort with a few jokes and songs. |
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